Featured: Indian Troops at the Front (1916) Footage of Indian troops with the British Army on the Western Front in France, 1916. This film was the very first of the Official Pictures of the British Army in France, representing the first British official film record of any of the war zones released for public viewing.
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Kilted soldiers unloading duckboards and carrying them a short distance. Filmed bewteen Pozieres and Mouquet Farm.
Removing tarpaulin from a Mark 1 'Female' tank (in camouflage paint scheme). The tank is equipped with a roof-mounted grenade screen; the stowage bin on rear steering wheels is adorned with a lucky horseshoe.
British propaganda film of the contribution of some women to the war effort, contrasted with the extravagance of others, 1918. The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that luxury shopping is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two small children while her husband serves in the trenches, munitions workers, nurses at a hospital, drivers and mechanics of the WAAC in France, drivers of military ambulances, and women special constables in Britain. The film ends with the enquiry CAN YOU HELP